• Erik Danen (LACDR) is part of the consortium SMART, which received a NWO Perspectief grant of 5 million euros
• The Exposome-Scan project, led by Thomas Hankemeier (LACDR), received 3.2 million euros from the NWO Investment Grant Large

• Salma Balazadeh, Víctor Carrión and Jos Raaijmakers (IBL) receive an Open Technology Programme grant of 730,000 euros for their project MicroRes
• Ben Wielstra (IBL) receives an ENW-M-1 grant of 354,000 euros
• Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski (IBL) receives an NWO XS grant of 50,000 euros

Veni – € 250,000

• Michelle Spiering (IBL) – How do we perceive sounds? A comparison between humans, monkeys and birds
• Zach Armstrong (LIC) – Targeting the viral sweet tooth
• Emma Brakkee (MI) – Geometry of the moduli of twisted K3 surfaces
• Ko-Ju Chuang (STRW) – Sulfur ice in space
• Kaveh Lahabi (LION) – Smart microscopes to see the quantum world

Vidi – € 800,000

• Louise Jawerth (LION) – Droplets and fibers: the physics of neurodegeneration

Rubicon Grant

• Donggang Wang (STRW) – Symmetries in the sky
• Anne Meeussen (LION) – Efficient design of shape-morphing materials
• Nick Gerrits (LIC) – Modelling the building blocks of plasma catalysis 
• Elliot Mock (LIC) – A new drug target for Parkinson’s disease 
• Cornelia Pabst (STRW) – Dragons in the Milky Way: A Panchromatic Observational Study of Stellar Feedback in Star-Forming Regions’ 
• Rianne de Heide (MI) – Bayesian best-arm identification: optimal algorithms for sequential decision making

Domain Science-KLEIN – € 708,500 

• Frederic Lens (IBL) and Rampal Etienne (Naturalis/RUG) – Untangling species diversification on islands: the role of traits

• Olga Gadyatskaya (LIACS) is part of the consortium C-SIDe, which received 1.45 million euros
• Nele Mentens (LIACS) coordinates the consortium PROACT, which received 1.8 million euros

ERC Advanced Grant

• Martin van Hecke (LION) receives an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros
• Ewine van Dishoeck (STRW) receives an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.3 million euros
• Marc Koper (LIC) receives an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros

• Thijs Bosker (CML) receives 350,000 euros of the 7 million euro funded project PAPILLONS

European Commission

• Kevin Grosvenor (LION) receives a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant
• Sam Young (LION) receives a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant

LUF Impulse Grant – € 150,000

• Sander van Kasteren (LIC) and Sander Kooijman (LUMC) – Researching the cause of atherosclerosis

• The Faculty of Science is part of the consortium Quantum Delta NL, which received 615 million euros

• Pedro Russo and Frans Snik (STRW) both received a 10,000 euros grant from the KNAW ‘Science Communication by Scientists: Appreciated!’
• Laurens Arp, Mitra Baratchi and Holger Hoos (LIACS) receive a grant of 90,000 euros from ESA
• Ariane Briegel (IBL) receives a Novo Nordisk Foundation grant of 182,000 euros
• Daniel Rozen (IBL) receives 310,000 euros of the Human Frontier Science Program, together with Karen Alim (Munich) and Marcus Roper (UCLA) 

• Marc Koper (LIC) wins the Spinoza Prize 
• Ewine van Dishoeck (STRW) receives the Jules Janssen Prize 2020
• The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration (STRW) receives the 2021 Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award
• Michał Pacholski and Koen van Deelen (LION) win the LION Teaching Assistant Prize
• Frank Hutter, Lin Xu, Holger Hoos and Kevin Leyton-Brown (LIACS) win the Artificial Intelligence Journal Prominent Paper Award

• Lindsey Burggraaff (LACDR) wins the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award
• Rachel Doherty (LION) wins LION Image Award with famed 3D printer microboat image
• Danna Qasim (STRW) wins the Astrochemistry Outstanding Dissertation Award 2021
• Felienne Hermans (LIACS) receives the Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2021
• Chengjian Xu (CML) wins the Stans Award for Best PhD Paper
• Sam Boerlijst, Lois van Laere, Amy Montanje and Megan Verhagen (CML) won the Stans Award for Best Outreach

• Anja Rüten-Budde (MI) wins the C.J. Kok Jury Award for best thesis
• Daniela Gawehns (LIACS) is part of Reprohak, which won the Open Initiative Trophy
• Space in Your Living Room (STRW) wins the first prize ‘Most Innovative Event’ of the Astronomy@Home Awards from the International Astronomical Union
• Thomas Hansen (LIC) wins the 2020 KNCV-Backer Prize
• AI networks CLAIRE (LIACS) and ELLIS jointly win the German Artificial Intelligence prize of 100,000 euros

• Michiel Veldhuis (CML) wins the C.J. Kok Public Award 
• Nadia Soudzilovskaia (CML) wins the Bessel-Forschungs from the Von Humboldt foundation
• Danna Qasim (STRW) wins the IAU PhD Prize in Division B: Facilities, Technologies and Data Science 
• Eleven Leiden Science scientists are on the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list of Clarivate Analytics
• Koos Biesmeijer (CML) receives the Communication Initiative Award with the National Bee Count

• Emilia Hannula (CML) receives the Golden Medal of Teylers Tweede Genootschap
• Klaas van Leest (LIC) receives the Dick Stufkens Prize 2021 of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) 
• Vedran Dunjko (LIACS) and his team receive 100,000 euros from Google to support their quantum research
• Anne Meeussen (LION) wins the Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa prize of the Dutch Physics Council
• Open Science Hub (STRW) wins the 2021 Portuguese Medal of Scientific Merit
• Joseph Callingham (STRW) receives the Louise Webster Prize from the Astronomical Society of Australia

• The iGEM Leiden students (IBL) win a Gold Medal and the Best Safety & Security Award at the iGEM competition 
• Mark van den Bosch (MI) wins the ASML Graduation Prize for Mathematics
• Karlijn Kruiswijk (LION) wins the Shell Graduation Prize for Physics
• Gijs van der Velden (IBL), Dominique Lawson (MI), Tobias Lewerissa (LION) and Lieke Vertegaal (LIACS) win a Young Talent Incentive Award
• Leiden students (IBL) win third place at the Dutch finals of BISC-E​​

• Dirk Uittenbogaard (CML) wins an Olympic gold medal in the men’s quadruple sculls
• Stef Broenink (LIC) wins an Olympic silver medal in the men’s double pair
• Leiden students of Rapidemic are finalists of ‘Most innovative student of the Netherlands’
• Arend Moerman (STRW) receives an A+ for his master’s thesis research
• Bas Roelofs (CML) wins the Stans Award for Best Student Thesis
• Renske Donkers (LIC) wins the Young Star Award

• Joe Hennawi (STRW) has been appointed as Professor of Cosmology
• Robert Rissmann (LACDR) has been appointed as Professor of Translational Dermatology at the LACDR and the Centre for Human Drug Research 
• Marta Fiocco (MI) has been appointed as Professor of Applied Mathematics
• Linda Holtman (LACDR) receives the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO)
• Floske Spieksma (MI) has been appointed as Professor of Stochastic Decision Theory
• Ed van den Berg has been appointed as interim Executive Director of the Faculty of Science
• Frans de Haas has been appointed as Scientific Director-Change Manager at the Mathematical Institute

• Jasper Knoester has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science
• Joost Barendse has been appointed as Student Assessor for a second term
• Martin van Hecke (LION) has been elected American Physical Society (APS) fellow
• Mariska Kriek (STRW) has been appointed as Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy
• Sangwon Suh (CML) has been appointed as Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis
• Alexey Boiarskyi (LION) has been appointed as Professor of Theoretical Physics
• Lars Jeuken (LIC) has been appointed as Professor of Biophysical Chemistry

• Francesca Arici (MI) has been appointed as member of the Raising Public Awareness Committee of the European Mathematical Society
• Holger Hoos (LIACS) has been appointed as ACM Fellow 
• Thomas Bäck (LIACS) has been appointed as Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Thomas Bäck (LIACS) has been appointed as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
• Ignas Snellen (STRW) has been appointed as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

• Jan van Ruitenbeek (LION) has been made a Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands
• Jaap van den Herik (MI) has been appointed Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau